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"Rosie knows the Lighthouse Reef Atoll like the back of her fin. She calls this
atoll home and is a matriarch of the thriving population of Caribbean reef
sharks (
Carcharhinus perezi) living there.
Her signature scar on her dorsal fin makes her easy to identify each year
during monitoring surveys conducted by MarAlliance, a U.S.-based nonprofit that
is also registered in Belize. Kirah Forman-Castillo, national coordinator of
the group’s Belize program, reported that fishers are observing a flourishing
of sharks in the country’s waters.
“As we talk to fishers, they are having the same experiences: increased numbers
of sharks,” Forman-Castillo said. “They are seeing more and more; they are
seeing them in the back reef and in areas where they never saw sharks before.”
This constitutes a striking recovery across various shark species after a
period of decline from 2009 to 2019. And it arose from a remarkable synergy
among shark fishers, marine scientists and management authorities who together
implemented restrictions to protect the megafauna across Belize’s three atolls,
according to experts
Mongabay spoke to for this story."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
